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Lung transplant with 2 living donors

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jfarel

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I hope someone can find this out. I would be really interested in knowing the statistics comparing living donor's to cadever's.

I suspect one problem w/ the stats is that there are far fewer living donor tx's.
 
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jfarel

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I hope someone can find this out. I would be really interested in knowing the statistics comparing living donor's to cadever's.

I suspect one problem w/ the stats is that there are far fewer living donor tx's.
 
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jfarel

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I hope someone can find this out. I would be really interested in knowing the statistics comparing living donor's to cadever's.

I suspect one problem w/ the stats is that there are far fewer living donor tx's.
 
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jfarel

New member
I hope someone can find this out. I would be really interested in knowing the statistics comparing living donor's to cadever's.

I suspect one problem w/ the stats is that there are far fewer living donor tx's.
 
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jfarel

New member
I hope someone can find this out. I would be really interested in knowing the statistics comparing living donor's to cadever's.
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<br />I suspect one problem w/ the stats is that there are far fewer living donor tx's.
 
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Asexyblond23

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Wow this is the first time I have heard of this and it seems like WOW. So stupid question here but instead of getting 3 new lobes on the left and 2 on the right with a cadaver lungs you just get 1 new lobe on the bottom of each lung, do they just cut and atach I guess. But I am wondering with emily also, I mean 2 different lobes would make me think more chance for rejection and more chance for problmes, yes its less of a surgery sort of, I mean part of the lung not the whole thing but it seems like it would have mroe issues. Also living with half cf lungs and half cf non lungs (LOL) how much does that up our lung capacity? Does that mean that we will be able to live jsut as long as if we had a regular transplant? Im just really courious about this if you cant tell <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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Asexyblond23

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Wow this is the first time I have heard of this and it seems like WOW. So stupid question here but instead of getting 3 new lobes on the left and 2 on the right with a cadaver lungs you just get 1 new lobe on the bottom of each lung, do they just cut and atach I guess. But I am wondering with emily also, I mean 2 different lobes would make me think more chance for rejection and more chance for problmes, yes its less of a surgery sort of, I mean part of the lung not the whole thing but it seems like it would have mroe issues. Also living with half cf lungs and half cf non lungs (LOL) how much does that up our lung capacity? Does that mean that we will be able to live jsut as long as if we had a regular transplant? Im just really courious about this if you cant tell <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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Asexyblond23

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Wow this is the first time I have heard of this and it seems like WOW. So stupid question here but instead of getting 3 new lobes on the left and 2 on the right with a cadaver lungs you just get 1 new lobe on the bottom of each lung, do they just cut and atach I guess. But I am wondering with emily also, I mean 2 different lobes would make me think more chance for rejection and more chance for problmes, yes its less of a surgery sort of, I mean part of the lung not the whole thing but it seems like it would have mroe issues. Also living with half cf lungs and half cf non lungs (LOL) how much does that up our lung capacity? Does that mean that we will be able to live jsut as long as if we had a regular transplant? Im just really courious about this if you cant tell <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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Asexyblond23

New member
Wow this is the first time I have heard of this and it seems like WOW. So stupid question here but instead of getting 3 new lobes on the left and 2 on the right with a cadaver lungs you just get 1 new lobe on the bottom of each lung, do they just cut and atach I guess. But I am wondering with emily also, I mean 2 different lobes would make me think more chance for rejection and more chance for problmes, yes its less of a surgery sort of, I mean part of the lung not the whole thing but it seems like it would have mroe issues. Also living with half cf lungs and half cf non lungs (LOL) how much does that up our lung capacity? Does that mean that we will be able to live jsut as long as if we had a regular transplant? Im just really courious about this if you cant tell <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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Asexyblond23

New member
Wow this is the first time I have heard of this and it seems like WOW. So stupid question here but instead of getting 3 new lobes on the left and 2 on the right with a cadaver lungs you just get 1 new lobe on the bottom of each lung, do they just cut and atach I guess. But I am wondering with emily also, I mean 2 different lobes would make me think more chance for rejection and more chance for problmes, yes its less of a surgery sort of, I mean part of the lung not the whole thing but it seems like it would have mroe issues. Also living with half cf lungs and half cf non lungs (LOL) how much does that up our lung capacity? Does that mean that we will be able to live jsut as long as if we had a regular transplant? Im just really courious about this if you cant tell <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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lightNlife

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They don't give you a whole new lung or two, they give you a PIECE of a lung.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cts.usc.edu/livingrelatedlungtransplantation.html">http://www.cts.usc.edu/livingr...ngtransplantation.html</a>
 
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lightNlife

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They don't give you a whole new lung or two, they give you a PIECE of a lung.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cts.usc.edu/livingrelatedlungtransplantation.html">http://www.cts.usc.edu/livingr...ngtransplantation.html</a>
 
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lightNlife

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They don't give you a whole new lung or two, they give you a PIECE of a lung.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cts.usc.edu/livingrelatedlungtransplantation.html">http://www.cts.usc.edu/livingr...ngtransplantation.html</a>
 
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lightNlife

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They don't give you a whole new lung or two, they give you a PIECE of a lung.

<a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cts.usc.edu/livingrelatedlungtransplantation.html">http://www.cts.usc.edu/livingr...ngtransplantation.html</a>
 
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lightNlife

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They don't give you a whole new lung or two, they give you a PIECE of a lung.
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<br /><a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.cts.usc.edu/livingrelatedlungtransplantation.html">http://www.cts.usc.edu/livingr...ngtransplantation.html</a>
 
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AnD

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If you scroll down to the bottom of the article that Welshwitch linked, there is a link to an article about living donors vs. cadavar donors in children.

And they replace your <i>entire</i> lung on each side with a lobe from each donor, and, according to the website, the living donor needs to be at least 4" taller than the recipient, preferably 6-8(?)" taller, so the donor lobe will fill the chest cavity on each side.
 
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AnD

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If you scroll down to the bottom of the article that Welshwitch linked, there is a link to an article about living donors vs. cadavar donors in children.

And they replace your <i>entire</i> lung on each side with a lobe from each donor, and, according to the website, the living donor needs to be at least 4" taller than the recipient, preferably 6-8(?)" taller, so the donor lobe will fill the chest cavity on each side.
 
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AnD

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If you scroll down to the bottom of the article that Welshwitch linked, there is a link to an article about living donors vs. cadavar donors in children.

And they replace your <i>entire</i> lung on each side with a lobe from each donor, and, according to the website, the living donor needs to be at least 4" taller than the recipient, preferably 6-8(?)" taller, so the donor lobe will fill the chest cavity on each side.
 
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AnD

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If you scroll down to the bottom of the article that Welshwitch linked, there is a link to an article about living donors vs. cadavar donors in children.

And they replace your <i>entire</i> lung on each side with a lobe from each donor, and, according to the website, the living donor needs to be at least 4" taller than the recipient, preferably 6-8(?)" taller, so the donor lobe will fill the chest cavity on each side.
 
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AnD

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If you scroll down to the bottom of the article that Welshwitch linked, there is a link to an article about living donors vs. cadavar donors in children.
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<br />And they replace your <i>entire</i> lung on each side with a lobe from each donor, and, according to the website, the living donor needs to be at least 4" taller than the recipient, preferably 6-8(?)" taller, so the donor lobe will fill the chest cavity on each side.
 
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